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I-57 Cairo Bridge

Alexander County, Illinois, and Mississippi County, Missouri

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Driving across

Photo taken by Bill Burmaster

BH Photo #102035

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Cairo Bridge Tour

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Driving across the I - 57 Cairo Bridge

Since I couldn't drive across the US 60/62 bridge to bird's point, I decided to record my trip across this bridge instead. I shall return once the other one opens.

Elliott Johnson

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Facts 

Overview
Steel through arch bridge carrying I-57 over the Mississippi River at Cairo
Location
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois, and Mississippi County, Missouri
Status
Open to four lanes of traffic
History
Built 1978
Design
Steel through arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 820.7 ft.
Total length: 4,088.8 ft. (0.8 mi.)
Deck width: 59.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.4 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.02417, -89.21083   (decimal degrees)
37°01'27" N, 89°12'39" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/303337/4099838 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Cairo
Inventory numbers
IL 002-0022 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15005 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2012)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 67.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2012)
9,900

Categories 

Alexander County, Illinois (32)
Arch (11,155)
Built 1978 (45)
Built during 1970s (724)
Cairo, Illinois (10)
Have street view (21,885)
Illinois (3,844)
Interstate 57 (2)
Mississippi County, Missouri (30)
Mississippi River (199)
 Missouri (5,912)
NR-eligible (3,966)
Navigable waterway (1,998)
Open (36,394)
Owned by state (13,572)
Span length 500-1000 feet (378)
State line crossing (727)
Steel through arch (203)
Total length over 2500 feet (789)

Update Log 

  • October 11, 2015: New video from Elliott Johnson
  • August 20, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
  • January 22, 2011: New video from Kim Harvey
  • September 9, 2008: New photos from James Baughn
  • May 29, 2008: New photos from David B. Haun
  • August 21, 2006: Posted construction photos from Mark Frazier

Sources 

  • Bill Burmaster
  • Mark Frazier - mfrazier404 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • David B. Haun
  • James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
  • Kim Harvey
  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Wikipedia
  • Elliott Johnson - elliottsgon15 [at] hotmail [dot] com
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Cairo I-57 Bridge
Posted September 30, 2015, by Ranchmama (cowgirl [at] suddenlink [dot] com)

Is this heading E toward Eddyville? We are traveling there Sunday with a trailer- was dreading the thought of having to cross the Old Mississippi Cairo Il bridge and almost backed out of the trip altogether just at the thought of that but- was told we won't be going that way. This is the only other bridge I can find heading E/W into ILL on 57.

Cairo I-57 Bridge
Posted September 14, 2015, by Jason Hann (geighcun [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Drove across a few weeks ago and got one good photo.

Cairo I-57 Bridge
Posted September 15, 2007, by mike rhodes (bridgebuilderus [at] YAHOO [dot] COM)

I think the contractor on the sub-structure of this bridge was Al Johnson, a Minneapolis contractor that went out of business in the early 90's.